At Tatiana Lisovskaya

Fans of vintage electronic music might know the mature skills and music of the musicians involved in this recording. Well, they won’t be disappointed with this excellent bunch of sounds derived from vintage keys and sequencers. The CD nicely kicks off with "Pre-flight", composed by Dave Fulton and John Duval. Next is the strong "Arrival" from the trio Engels/vander Wel/Heij, which carries strong comparisons to the sequencer-stuff of ‘70 Tangerine Dream. Tracks 3 to 6 are the outcome of a session the SFP-guys had with Dave Fulton on December 7, 2002, of which "Passage" is a wonderful excursion with some great mellotron sounds. In all, the sparkling music on this album breathes the magic realm of TD’s "Ricochet" and "Encore".

It’s been said that basketball is like jazz—but Rock Chalk Suite takes the comparison to another level entirely. Written and recorded by the musicians of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, each of the suite’s high-flying 15 movements takes inspiration from a different University of Kansas hoops legend. As Marsalis says, both basketball and jazz “reward improvisation and split-second decision making against the pressure of time,” and the JLCO’s masterful composers have turned the Jayhawks’ rich basketball history into a stylish slam dunk of an album.

The Ukrainian-American violinist Oleh Krysa is long esteemed in the former USSR as a distinguished soloist, chamber musician and teacher. A prominent student of David Oistrakh, Oleh Krysa won major prizes in such international competitions as the Wieniawski, Tchaikovsky and Montreal, and was the outright winner of the Paganini Competition.

Tatiana Shebanova, who also features in the Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s on-going Real Chopin series (see review special, p83), gets her own complete, modern instrument (as opposed to Real Chopin’s historic instruments) cycle on the Polish label Dux. Arranged in opus order, it presents a satisfying survey of Chopin’s development, and it spares the listener from (for example) a lack of variety in the usual hour-long sequence of waltzes.

This CD has been released in memory of Tatiana Shebanova, who died not long after these recordings were made. It shows the exceptional relationship which she had with the historic Erard piano heard here. She fell in love with the instrument the very first time she played it.

This CD has been released in memory of Tatiana Shebanova, who died not long after these recordings were made. It shows the exceptional relationship which she had with the historic Erard piano heard here. She fell in love with the instrument the very first time she played it.

After a highly successful series of concerts in Russia, Tatiana Nikolayeva won in 1950 1st prize at Leipzig's Bach festival for her performance of Bach's clavier works (1950)….

Tatiana Nikolayeva (Piano, Arranger)

There are a lot of Bach's works, performed by T.Nikolayeva in the Global Network, but the Partitas are absent